Virgin Media is making high-definition TV more affordable, with a new budget HD V Box. Unlike Sky, Virgin’s HD service doesn’t require an extra monthly fee, but you have to pay for the box and a setup charge. Although the new budget set-top box doesn’t embrace the ability to record programmes (you’ll need the V+HD …
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19 July
Hands
Apple isn’t likely to allow Firefox or any other competing HTML Web browser on its iOS platform anytime soon, but Mozilla’s Firefox Home for iPhone, released to the App Store late last week, does at least bring the heart of the Firefox browser to your iPhone: your URLs. Before getting into what Firefox Home is, you should know that a …
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19 July
Blurry images indicate yet another Droid phone
The first images of a new Android device from Motorola have made their way online and, just as we expected, we should be getting yet another design. Though it looks very much like a Palm Pre, we can determine only that the handset is a portrait slider with a four-row QWERTY keyboard. According to MobiFlip (translated), the phone runs at …
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19 July
Motorola i1 available from Sprint July 25
Motorola i1 Sprint Following in Boost Mobile’s footsteps, Sprint announced on Monday that it, too, will offer the Motorola i1, starting July 25 for $149.99 with a two-year contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate through its business and Web channels. The phones will arrive in retail stores on August 8. The i1 is the first Android device to support …
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19 July
iPad to hit more countries on Friday
The iPad is hitting nine more countries on Friday. Apple The iPad’s market is going more global starting this Friday. Apple announced Monday that its popular tablet will reach residents in nine more countries: Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Both the Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi+3G models will go on sale. The iPad is currently …
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19 July
Virgin Media VM800: Six months free Interwebs
Six months ago, we were all actually looking forward to the World Cup, bow ties weren’t cool, and the iPhone 4 was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye. Six months on the Web is even longer. Think what all you pay as you go phone owners have missed out on, not like those hoity-toity smart-phone owners with their la-di-dah …
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19 July
Jason Parker’s 10 favorite iPhone apps (CNET 100)
Editors’ note: Each day for the next 10 business days, CNET personalities you know and love will publish slideshows of their 10 personal favorite iPhone apps. With each post, you get a chance to vote for your own favorite app. Two weeks from now, we’ll collect the full list of 100 apps and announce the 10 that you, our readers, …
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19 July
Android basics
Google’s Android operating system is the new kid on the block, which is seeing an incredible surge in popularity thanks to the support it is receiving from manufacturers. In Australia the range of Android phones is growing faster than any other, and include models across all pricing tiers, from top-shelf handsets to prepaid models as well. Learning any new system …
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19 July
RIM adds BlackBerry geolocation, minus GPS
How do you zero in on a location without using GPS? You use cell phone towers. BlackBerry-maker RIM announced on Monday that it will use cell-tower triangulation as part of a new geolocation feature in its Locate Service for the BlackBerry Application Platform. This tactic of using signal from nearby cell towers to approximate your phone’s location is nothing new, …
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19 July
Verizon brings one
If you’re looking for more ways to get apps onto your BlackBerry smartphone, Verizon would like to make a suggestion: use its storefront. On Monday, Verizon began rolling out V Cast Apps on select 3G smartphones, like the BlackBerry Bold 9650, Storm 2 9550, Curve 8530, and Tour 9630. The company announces it will also bring its app store to …
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